wait, wtf? don't you sort of need your cervix? I am confuse about anatomy. also, so sorry about your medical mishaps! post-op infections are the worst and you must be so tired. thanks for keeping our blog alive, being a coach calling on the deep bench.

That is weird. Given that you had a clear opinion that the surgeon was going to leave the cervix in, had you had a conversation about pros and cons? Because I'd want the surgeon to tell me why the plan changed without your knowledge or consent. There might be a perfectly good reason, but I'd want to know.

I don't mean to disturb your equanimity, but WHAT THE FUCK? THOSE ARE DIFFERENT SURGERIES. At the very least, if he decided to do a different procedure, the very first thing he should have told you when you came to is why there had been a change of plans.

That said, a lawsuit would be very difficult (I'm not an expert!) because he can always come up with something he saw during the surgery that required removal of your cervix, but the fact that he hasn't addressed this is fucking insane.

Wow, I would really want to know what the hell has happened there. I'm annoyed with the placement of my chemo port for various reasons, and am not at all thrilled by the lack of discussion of the issue (I brought it up twice pre-op, but to no avail). Surgeons, man.

I mean, this is what happened when my birth plan said "DON'T flick a scalpel from the bottom of my vagina down through my taint, just don't" and my ob-jine's sub's sub went "snickt" without so much as mentioning that shit, but you can sew stuff back together way more easily than you can regrow organs. mmm, complex pieces of differentiated tissue? whatever, I touch mine monthly and sort of wonder what you'll feel up in there. a hole leading endlessly inward, nautilus-like to your very womanly core? a wall of scarred tissue you don't want anyone to ram their dick on, ever? I'm sure I'm being silly, as women have them removed all the time, but it seems unsettling and I'm very sorry you're being put through this on top of the rest of it, heebz.

For complicated and semi-historical reasons, various pathology samples at work are described using cheese to analogize consistency, eg brie for runny samples. Also, "juicy." Mercifully, I don't like cheese in the first place, because if I did, I'd be totally put off.

I think it was one of those things that was never said explicitly in the pre-op appointment either way. The discussion was whether to have just the oophorectomy or the full hysterectomy, and there wasn't hard reasons to go either way. When pressed, he said he'd recommend the full, because it's slightly easier to treat breast cancer if you don't have to worry about uterine cancer.

So that was that. Possibly he implied cervical cancer along with that, but that was not my understanding, so I assumed the cervix was staying. (I did know that it was sometimes removed in the course of a hysterectomy.)